Commissioner Heiskell’s latest plan for the county? Selling a (literal) pile of garbage.

Walker County Landfill is now listed for sale. Bebe’s taking bids until mid-July.

In the last year Heiskell has taken out $1 million in loans to expand the dump, which can only accept construction debris. The dump also loses several hundred thousand dollars a year from its operations, despite being of little benefit to the actual county since it only buries construction debris – a majority of which come from outside the county. (Household trash left at the dump is trucked out of state and has been for the last twenty years.)

The landfill and its losses have been mentioned multiple times on LU, and this year have become a point of criticism from Heiskell’s primary challenger, Shannon Whitfield.

Is this how Bebe negates Whitfield’s critique? Does she have a plan to offload the money-losing dump, cheap, to one of her regular campaign contributors? Maybe she’s legitimately trying to sell the asset to make money for the county…

Or it’s an election-year scam to make voters think she’s trying, when she’s absolutely not.

Walker County’s court battle, meanwhile, degrades further into something akin to a child sticking his fingers in his ears and going NAH NAH NAH when asked a question.

Members of the Hospital Authority (which owns/owned Hutcheson) have finally demanded Walker pay up its portion of the Erlanger debts, but Walker County’s hired-gun lawyer Stuart James says Authority chairman Darrell Weldon’s order is illegal and invalid.

Before Hutcheson closed Bebe could at least attempt to argue her poor decisions were meant to keep the place going. Now, with Hutcheson existing only on paper and the actual hospital controlled by another unrelated company, the situation is (As Weldon says) just about Heiskell delaying the inevitable until after the election – or possibly about her going senile..

Walker will end up owing Erlanger all $8.5 million plus Erlanger’s legal fees PLUS our own legal fees for fighting it… When it all hits the fan in November or so. We might also end up owing the interest on that debt Erlanger was at one point willing to overlook.

During the last week, three men in Walker and Catoosa have been arrested on charges of child molestation.

Cagney Darail Dyer, 28, of Rossville was arrested in Walker County on Saturday, hiding in a friend’s bathroom, after a Catoosa mom said he molested her daughter. (Dyer has some ties to LaFayette as well.)

Investigators say the child recounts abuses at Dyer’s hand from March of last year until this month.

GBI officers and a number of local law enforcement agencies were attempting to serve a warrant on Sky Douglas Bishop. Bishop fired at an officer and barricaded himself inside a Maple Drive home. He later surrendered and was taken into custody without further incident.

Six years ago, under federal pressure, Georgia agreed to shut down its network of mental hospitals and move mentally disabled/mentally ill patients into “community settings” for treatment. A terrible solution to a big problem that anyone with sense could have predicted would make the mental health situation in Georgia much worse.

AllOnGeorgia, 06/21/16:“Taylor, who is the Chairman of the Joint House-Senate committee that oversees MARTA, was not charged with child endangerment because all of the teens in the vehicle were over the age of 16. He was ordered to pay a $1,500 fine and complete 40 hours of community service, while serving one year of probation.”

“..His attorney in the case is a former aide to Governor Nathan Deal.”